NatureMapr 2018 workshop & forum

Friday 11th May10:30am - 3:00 pm

CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street,Canberra

As a much valued Moderator or Superuser, we invite you to join the NatureMaprworkshop on Friday May 11th at the CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street,Canberra from 10:30am.

We welcome the new Atlas of Life: Budawang Coast contributors to the NatureMapr Network, afellowship of interest in mapping biodiversity in our respective regions. This is a great opportunity for us to meet together and discuss our overarching aims, the detail and principles of our Moderation process, how we can develop our capacity for observation, recording and science and how we can attract scientists and natural resource managers to work with us for our mutual benefit.

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NatureMapr Workshop 2018 Registration

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Canberra Nature Map

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In preparation for the meeting, we invite you to identify any ‘burning issues’ that you would like to see considered. We will gather these on the day and, if they are unable to be addressed immediately, they will be incorporated into the next stages of planning and development.

We look forward to seeing you in Canberra on 11th May.

If you are unable to join us at the meeting, we encourage you to contribute your comments and suggestions, and to raise any issues for consideration. Please submit your thoughts using the 'Absentee Comments' form.

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Thank you for taking the time to contribute your thoughts. These are valuable to us. They will be taken into consideration during the meeting, and in the follow-up planning. We will keep you informed of outcomes from the meeting.

Kind regards,The NatureMapr Network team

Meeting Agenda

Morning session

10:00 Meet colleagues (coffee, drinks and food available from the adjacent CSIRO café)10:30 Welcoming address - the NatureMapr Network, and what we are building together10:45 NatureMapr - the platform10:55 Moderation: what's important (presentation & Q&A)11:20 Workshop 1 (small group discussions): What should be the guiding principles for our moderation? How do we expand and deepen our Moderator capabilities, individually and collectively?

Lunch 12 - 1pm

Afternoon session

1:00 Building the Science: How do we build more science into NatureMapr, beyond distribution and abundance? (Presentation)1:15 Collaborative Science: Benefits to research scientists and natural resource managers from collaborating with us (Presentation)1:30 Workshop 2 (small group discussions): What science do we want to do? How do we make that happen?2:10 Summary of workshop outcomes2:30 Future objectives3:00 Close